Blues
1 Pauliasi Manu, 2. James Parsons , 3. Ofa Tuungafasi, 4. Patrick Tuipulotu, 5. Gerard Cowley-Tuioti, 6. Jerome Kaino, 7. Antonio Kiri Kiri, 8. Akira Ioane;
9 Sam Nock, 10. Bryn Gatland, 11. Melani Nanai, 12. Sonny Bill Williams, 13. Rieko Ioane, 14. Matt Duffie,15. Michael Collins.

Reserves:
16 Leni Apisai, 17. Ross Wright or Sione Mafileo, 18. Mike Tamoaieta, 19. Jimmy Tupou, 20. Murphy Taramai, 21. Jonathan Ruru, 22. Stephen Perofeta, 23. George Moala

Players not considered because of injury: Otere Black (knee), Blake Gibson (shoulder), Glenn Preston (calf), Matt Moulds (knee), Dalton Papalii (hand), Augustine Pulu (foot), Kara Pryor (leg), Alex Hodgman (arm), Scott Scrafton (leg).

Stormers
15 Dillyn Leyds, 14 JJ Engelbrecht, 13 EW Viljoen, 12 Damian De Allende, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Damian Willemse, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage,
8 Nizaam Carr, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi (captain), 5 Chris van Zyl, 4 Jan de Klerk, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Ramone Samuels, 1 Steven Kitshoff.

Replacements:
16 Dean Muir, 17 JC Janse van Rensburg, 18 Carlu Sadie, 19 Salmaan Moerat, 20 Cobus Wiese, 21 Sikhumbuzo Notshe, 22 Justin Phillips, 23 Craig Barry (DHL Stormers debut).

Scrafton is a loss. Hopefully his injury isn't too bad.

Id rather see Parsons play 80 than Apisai see the field. Why not just keep Wright at bench hooker and have Mafileo as reserve prop.

Perofeta needs to be on nice and early like last week.

I think the game is 0205 SUnday morning. Terrible time to watch

@stargazer Blues probably need to update their website, haven't both Moulds & Pryor been named in the dev side game this weekend?

@KiwiMurph maybe the intention is to see how the props are going an dif well enough, send Ross on at hooker, and then he can shift to prop if they need to send Apisai on.

Despite losing, I think the Stormers have been playing ok. Willemse is a talented, shame he won't be going head to head with Perofeta from the start.

With that travel the Blues should be favourites though. Checked a couple of places and it seems the Blues are rated a better chance by foreign betting agencies, the tab has it almost even

@duluth There's a fairly handy odds aggregator website here:

Rare for us to get 2 wins in SA, but this is a pretty good chance for it. Stormers will be tough though, even with travel.

@kiwimurph said in Stormers v Blues:

Id rather see Parsons play 80 than Apisai see the field. Why not just keep Wright at bench hooker and have Mafileo as reserve prop.

As good a time as any to play Parsons 80 with the BYE next week.

these uniforms though..

Why arent the Blues wearing their away jersey

@mimic that is the Blues away jersey.

Ironically the Blues home jersey is light blue and would clash less.

How fucking hard is it for SAANZAR to sort it out so their arent jersey clashes.

We appear to be flat. Very inaccurate so far.

Second week in a row Blues have started poorly.

Blues defense non existent.

Absolutely awful from Gatland.

So the Stormers have a 19 year old first five and Tana is too much of a pussy to play Perofeta at 10...

There is only one team in this. They are wearing blue but it aint the Blues.

If the Blues have a defensive coach, he should be fired.

Another awful error by Gatland - great selection Tana

@antipodean said in Stormers v Blues:

If the Blues have a defensive coach, he should be fired.

Its hard winning when you're leaking 30 points a game..

Gatland and Nock have been gash. Fuck off Tana and your shit selections, you are just not up to it at this level.

Italy v Scotland game seems a lot more interesting. Might just start watching that.